Raised in the mountains of Colombia, beside a creek, among guava and almond trees, carpets of rose apple and pringamoza leaves, Camila Arévalo Roa is a Chicago-based animal, transexual and interdisciplinary artist, working at the intersection of performance, video, installation, and sculpture — or, as a curator once called her, a multi-headed dragon.

Her practice crawls through the performance of everyday life, the illusion of the “postcolonial”, the metaphysical belief in humans’ natural position of privilege over the planet, and the body as a stage where power is exercised, negotiated, subverted and eroticized.

For her, power itself is the medium.